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Nuʿaym ibn ʿAbd Allah, together with another man whose name he mentioned, were sent to the Byzantine ruler during Abu Bakr’s caliphate. He said: “We went in to see Jabalah ibn al-Ayham while he was in the Ghouta, End the quotation after “Ghouta,” then write: “The narrator then continued the account.”
عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، وَرَجُلًا آخَرَ، قَدْ سَمَّاهُ، بُعِثُوا إِلَى مَلِكِ الرُّومِ زَمَنَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ،
قَالَ:
فَدَخَلْنَا عَلَى جَبَلَةَ بْنِ الْأَيْهَمِ وَهُوَ بِالْغُوطَةِ فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ.